Osmcast! Anime, Video Games, Interviews, And More!

This is the stuff! It’s BONUSPALOOZA! This time, Basil goes to digitally chill with the intrepid, dashing, and always classy Reverse Thieves on their Speakeasy podcast as we talk about Kekkaishi. You know, the greatest and most awesome shonen series you people still aren’t paying attention to! See, we know this, because we talked about this show on the OSMcast waaaaaay back in show #11. That was back in June of 2008 (holy crap we’ve been doing the OSMcast longer than I thought!), before the anime was licensed and only the  manga was coming out under people’s noses. Three years later, it’s been on Hulu, Cartoon Network, and soon to DVD. NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO HOP ON THE KEKKAISHI TRAIN GUYS. JUST SAYIN’. The Reverse Thieves: Fightin' crime and bloggin' about anime and manga. OSMnotes JUST SAYIN’. I meant to get this bonus up sooner, but work intervened. And Infamous 2. And the new Zelda 3DS game. And three volumes of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. And a volume of  20th Century Boys. … Maybe I was lazy. (

For those keeping track from the previous BONUS, the PSN won. :( The MTAC podcast is on it’s way, but in the meantime here’s a podcast where Basil joins the fine fellows of   One Pixel Jump and talk about this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, aka E3. Listen on as they discuss the conferences, the Cheetos, the Reggies, the Vitas, the Kinects, the dramas, the _pathos _of video games. And by pathos I mean ModNation Racers, and also Dragon Quest. Because that’s what you get when you let me (and by me I mean Basil) talk about video games. OK look. ModNation Racers is awesome, and so is Dragon Quest, alright? Really, it’s s shame we never got around to doing a Dragon Quest IX podcast. Maybe one day I’ll hound down Greggo and force him to talk about it for an hour with us. Ah, dreams~

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Basil releases a podcast a week and a half late! Not only is it late, but it’s fractured, depressed husk of a glorious experimental OSMcast that failed to be realized. In other words, pretty much you get Basil, Rail, and Kevin talking about some cool stuff then we tell you all about this awesome local anime con that has now already happened. That said, most of that time was spent getting ready for the con, working said con, the recuperating after previously stated con. So anyway, roughly 20 minutes of it is worth listening to, more or less. Next time, MTAC OMNI SUPER DUPER OSMCAST!

Now let's see who gets back online first, the OSMcast! or PSN! So, unfortunately due to the nature of our producer’s job constantly sending him out of state as bookends to the natural disaster that hit Alabama, we haven’t had a chance to get our MTAC podcast mastered yet. However, Basil has also been pulling regular duty on another podcast, a video game podcast by the name of the Sestren Dreamcast. So here’s the latest of the said podcast! We talk about concept and usefulness of video games reviews, the new Nintendo Console, and the PSN being down. If you’d like to check out the Sestren forums, here’s a link to that place too!

Hey when you get to watch animation looking this good, your jaw is going to drop it like it's hot as well. Since last time we talked about a movie that was awesome and incredibly hard to find at a decent price, we decided to instead talk about a movie that is awesome and quite readily available! So here’a s a podcast all about Mamoru Hosoda’s and studio MADHOUSE’s Summer Wars. OSMnotes The internet is down and I’m having to update this from my phone, sooooo here’s some copy and paste about our plans for MTAC: And as you no doubt may have heard on said recording, we are doing a variety of panels at MTAC! From teas to engrish to Go Nagai, we’ve pretty much going to have you covered about what’s important in life. (Note: The times are of course tentative and subject to change at MTAC’s needs and/or whims!) Engrish Jambore (Panel 3, Friday 2PM) : Basil and Drew shop off a bunch of Engrishy-clips. Tea: Green and More! (Panel 4, Friday 6PM): the elusive Doug throws down on the haps in tea. Anime’s Creepy Uncle: G

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer So what happens when Mamoru Oshii decides to stretch his directing chops with a Rumiko Takahashi property? You get the excellent film Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer. What happens when you get two anime geeks in a  room with a microphone to talk about said film? You get this podcast. OSMnotes You know, back when I bought this film last year, I paid around $20 for it. Now it’s $80-150. That’s  pretty crazy! It makes Crusher Joe seem kinda reasonable online in comparison. And as you no doubt may have heard on said recording, we are doing a variety of panels at MTAC! From teas to engrish to Go Nagai, we’ve pretty much going to have you covered about what’s important in life. (Note: The times are of course tentative and subject to change at MTAC’s needs and/or whims!) Engrish Jambore (Panel 3, Friday 2PM) : Basil and Drew shop off a bunch of Engrishy-clips. Tea: Green and More! (Panel 4, Friday 6PM): the elusive Doug throws down on the haps in tea. Anime’s Creepy Uncle: G

The best movie of 2011 you probably never saw! This podcast was in fact so angry, we had to let it cool down for an extra two weeks just so we could get it out here. It’s all about Nicolas Cage’s latest vehicle of awesomeness, Drive Angry. Always angry special guest Daryl Surat joins us for this drive-filled action packed people talking exciting episode of excitement. We talk about all sorts of things that seemed really important at the time! And quite possibly still do! OSMnotes Sadly, as it turned out that even two eeks ago, Drive Angry was already out of our local theaters. It’s a real shame. But these things do tend to come out in home media form, so when it does, you should watch this film, 3D or no! Also, Momocon has already happened, but it was fun! A good time was had by all. Next up on the OSMcast Road Show? MTAC! We’ll be present two lovely panels for your education and also possibly amusement! We’ll be rocking out with the Getting Your Anime Groove Back panel that was discussed IN THIS VERY EPISOD

Kami-Con's mascot, Kosho. Apparently the con has sister mascots, and she's the dark one. I think. The con season has already kicked into full swing and lo, we bring you once more the REAL SHIT about a recent convention, specifically Kami-Con, in the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa that happened this past weekend. So here it is, a whole lot of on the spot audio interviews. At Kami-Con. OSMnotes I swear we will have a regular podcast at some point! Really! Also, several people asked me (Basil) what clips I showed at the Pain Train at Kami-Con. I’ll probably bang out a new post with that stuff later.

PixelCon 2011 On a whim of a flight of fancy, basil decided to take a quick road trip over to Tuscaloosa to check out PixelCon: A Convention for Gamers, and see what the haps were. Is haps even used nowadays? Hmm. Well, here’s the haps anyway, straight from the con goers mouths, into a microphone, then regurgitated into mp3 format. Share and enjoy! OSMnotes Okay, so actually Rail drove Basil there, but he was too busy _actually playing video game_s instead of harassing people with a microphone. But we all know what was important here! So where will the OSMcast journey to next? Why, to Kami-Con! It’s an anime con, also in Tuscaloosa. And rumor has it, that Basil will even have panels there! It will be exciting! Adventurous! Panelriffic! It will be the haps.

OSMrobo got into the whole video game thing a little bit TOO much... It’s time to kick ass, take names, and chew some gum as the OSMcast wraps up the 2010 OSMawards with 2 hours of video game talk. Which is a lot. OSMnotes The OSMcast have been pretty busy lately! Basil guest-started on the one of the latest episodes of the Chainsaw Buffet podcast, where they did even more year in review hijinks! Although, after a total of almost 4 hours of OSMcast yearing in reviewing you’d think we would cover it all, but no. The Chainsaw guys have proven that the Basil Rock of OSM can be squeezed yet for more blood. Of awesome. And perhaps Basil will actually make use of his blog now? Well, Basil certainly has no clue, but he did churn out a post about liking Ghost Trick a lot. And as always, Lee churns out his webcomic Hazard’s Wake like a MADMAN. A  hazardous madman.

According to Lee: "The blue lines aren't because I drew it on notebook paper. They are in fact the enemy robot's barrier shield that the OSMrobo is ripping through." As we all know, the first thing you do in a new year is to look back at the previous year, unless you have a decade to deal with. So to ring in 2011 we have got the first half of the 2010 OSMawards! In this just-shy-of-two-hours BEHEMOTH of a podcast we tackle the “passive” media of 2010. TV shows, movies, anime, novels, stuff you consume but don’t interact with… pretty much everything expect video games.  So strap in, get some nice hot cocoa a warmin’, and listen to us yammer for a while! Bonus: And gaze up the MAJESTY that is OSMrobo that Lee drew while recording. His fists are fists of JUSTICE. And awesomeness. OSMnotes Bonus props to Narutaki of Reverse Thieves for rising to the challenge letting us know her picks via Twitter to help us fill in the gaps! If you’s also like to your thoughts in on a particular subject before we recor

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier To finish off the year, we here at the OSMcast decided to give the gift that keeps on giving: chest puppies a podcast! In this case, we talk about Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier, from Atlus by way of Banpresto and Monolith Soft. And in the spirit of fan service, for the second half of the podcast where we actually TALK about the boobalicious video game that gives us our episode title, we’re joined by Gerald from the always awesome AWO, who got roughly five minutes warning to be on the show. Because Gerald is a man of ACTION. And just in case you need a visual aid about the subject matter at hand (hurr hurr), here you go: Just look at'em go! OSMnotes It’s not impossible to find this game, you just have to look online. Being that we have to be a form of online media, we can help point you in the right direction! And just in case you were curious, here’s David Cabrera’s post all about the crazily awesome localization of the game. _ ALSO IMPORTANT NOTIC

You kids still like that Soul Eater, right? The OSMcast returns somewhat triumphant from our holiday hiatus with an episode all about holiday Christmas Specials! So warm up some eggnog, curl up at the fire, and do whatever holiday things that you do while we spin you a yarn of holiday cheer and bullets. OSMnotes We tried something off the cuff with Basil asking for comments from his Twitter. It seemed to go well, so expect for such tom foolery in the future. Thanks to every one that responded!

It’s time to hit another OSMcast out of the park as we talk about Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game! That said, the only actual OSMcast player on this one is Basil, as everyone else was brought in from other podcasts. We’re joined by the Reverse Thieves: Hisui and Narutaki, as well as by Drew of Akihabra Renditions. So one could say it’s an All-Star team this episode. Also, it’s two hours long, probably because there was no one to keep Basil in check.Musical Interlude: Girl Talk! Drew’s Moment of OSM becomes the soundtrack to which this episode rocks to. Considering the mash-up nature of this episode, it is somewhat appropriate! OSMnotesYou can stream Cross Game in anime form via Hulu, and you can purchase Cross Game in manga form from Amazon, among other retailers. And you should! It is amazing stuff, that will harm your heart and crush you soul, if you’d just let it!Also watch Sym-Bionic Titan. And Star Driver. Both are quality mecha-fied experiences that deliver top-notch giant robot but also kids in high school

Micah Solusod Back in June at HamaCon here in Huntsville, AL we got the chance to talk to one of Funimation’s freshest talents, Micah Solusod! He’s probably best known for his work as Soul Eater Evans in Soul Eater. However he has already been in several roles, including stuff from Birdy the Mighty Decode, Big Windup!, and Corpse Princess. He recently has reopened his website which you should totally check out. Protip: When conducting podcast interviews, do not record them right beside air conditioning units. This is very important!

dollar dollar bill y'all Some people say that today is Columbus Day, where some _dude _in 1492 took an unexpected vacation to the Bahamas. Some others will tell you that today is National Coming Out Day, a day of civil awareness and discourse about LGBT, in which I have discovered is NOT the acronym for Legend of the Galactic Heroes, I just always get those confused! BUT NO. Today is actually the OSMcast Releases a Podcast about RIN-NE Day!  This Awesomely Recognized holiday (recognized by all human beings that like awesome things, and also puppies) is so called because today was the day we released an episode about Rumiko Takahashi’s latest manga work, RIN-NE. How exciting!

Anime Weekend Atlanta - September 17th-19th, 2010 Another year, another AWA. Another AWA, another podcast about AWA! So here is our con-report on Anime Weekend Atlanta 16, recorded late late Saturday night in our secret lair within the confines of the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. It covers Friday and Saturday since at the time of recording, Sunday hadn’t even officially happened yet! We are joined by the most dapper of gentlemen that are the Chainsaw Buffet podcast. So come listen in on te THRILL that is us talking about panels! The EXCITEMENT as Basil talks about locking his keys in his car! The WONDER of anime fans in Atlanta! OSMnotes As always, AWA was a grand ol’ time. We could type out all the awesome things we went to, but chances are you just listened to all of it! So instead I’m going to tell you all to go check out Dave Merrill’s webcomic ZERO FIGHTER. It’s pretty good stuff! Also we know that the Scott Pilgrim podcast file is ending early. It apparently finished rendering too early and we didn’t cat

When in doubt, video games. Running with a full four man crew the OSMcast_!_ is BACK and talking about SCOTT PILGRIM. Vs, uh, I dunno, a bunch of stuff! We talk about the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the movie adaption of said graphic novels directed by Edgar Wright, as well as the video game that adapts from _both _those things made by Ubisoft Montreal. That’s a lot of stuff! GET YOUR LINKS ON: Anime3000! Empire Building Architect Sean Russell is the man with the plan, and that plan is to have all sorts of podcasts and other sorts of crazy stuff for your perusal. From his A3K Panel and Bonus Round, Reverse Thieves’ The Speakeasy, and Josh Dunham’s Animēshon Podcast, there is a TON of stuff to listen to. A TON. (Also, a ton of links.) OSMnotes I GUESS you could go see the movies, but really the best thing you can do is get you some of those BOOKS. Most of the bi ol’ booksellers of the land should have them thanks to to movie, or you could just order then from Amazon. And sure, we have absolutely no

Black Jack. He's a REAL DOCTOR. For this episode of the OSMcast_!_ we decided to tangle with Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack, being released by  Vertical. But frankly the dark doctor was more than we could handle alone, so we had to call in some  back up. Who in the world could save us? None other than Clarissa from the Anime World Order podcast! So come listen in as we talk about the surgical sweetness that is Black Jack. OSMnotes While I know locally it’s not terribly hard to track down volumes of this manga, I also know you can always pick up a copy on Amazon. So buy it. You’ll thank us later. You hear that, you're ALL going DOWN. ... With Laughter. At AWA. And yes, that’s right in a mere matter of weeks the OSMcast_!_ shall be taking our annual sojourn to greatest anime con of the southeast, Anime Weekend Atlanta. There will be thrills, chills, excitement, PODCASTING. Worlds will be rocked. Minds, BLOWN. Also, we have panels. Basil will be teaming up with Drew from Akihabara Renditions for two action-packed r

Truly, only on the master system that is the PS3 can one truly enjoy the Spirit of the Drift™. In this fast and FURIOUS episode of the OSMcast_!_ we decided to take the best kart racer around for a spin.  And in case you haven’t read the title yet, that game is United Front Games’ ModNation Racers. OSMnotes You can buy ModNation Racers everywhere video games are sold! And also PS3s, in case you need one of those. And you would like some free entertainment, our pal Victor has started updating his website with his brand new novella Chairshot: A Love Story. It’s an exciting tale of triumph, anguish, and wrestling. You can start reading it here.